Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements and original sources
- Brief chronology
- Honours
- Introduction
- 1 A Quaker upbringing
- 2 How about studying insulin?
- 3 Radioactive sequencing of proteins and nucleic acids
- 4 Interview of Fred by the author in 1992: Early life
- 5 Interview of Fred by the author in 1992: Insulin and the Biochemistry Department, University of Cambridge
- 6 Interview of Fred by the author in 1992: Nucleic acids at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
- 7 Post-Sanger sequencing: high-throughput automated sequencing
- 8 Cancer: the impact of new-generation sequencing
- 9 Commentaries on Fred Sanger’s scientific legacy
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Complete bibliography of Fred Sanger
- Notes
- Index
- Plates
9 - Commentaries on Fred Sanger’s scientific legacy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements and original sources
- Brief chronology
- Honours
- Introduction
- 1 A Quaker upbringing
- 2 How about studying insulin?
- 3 Radioactive sequencing of proteins and nucleic acids
- 4 Interview of Fred by the author in 1992: Early life
- 5 Interview of Fred by the author in 1992: Insulin and the Biochemistry Department, University of Cambridge
- 6 Interview of Fred by the author in 1992: Nucleic acids at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
- 7 Post-Sanger sequencing: high-throughput automated sequencing
- 8 Cancer: the impact of new-generation sequencing
- 9 Commentaries on Fred Sanger’s scientific legacy
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Complete bibliography of Fred Sanger
- Notes
- Index
- Plates
Summary
At the suggestion of Cambridge University Press – after my manuscript was completed – I commissioned five short commentaries by distinguished molecular biologists who had read my biography. These complement the Foreword by Sir Edwin Southern.
The commentators are:
Paul Berg, Cahill Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, Stanford University, Stanford, California, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize with Fred Sanger and Walter (Wally) Gilbert.
Elizabeth (Liz) Blackburn, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, who studied for her PhD with Fred Sanger in Cambridge and is a Nobel Laureate (2009).
Sir John Sulston, founding Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, who worked on the nematode and human genome projects. He is a Nobel Laureate (2002).
David Bentley, Vice-President and Chief Scientist, Illumina Inc., Chesterford Research Park, Essex, UK, who gives an industrial perspective. He worked on the Human Genome Project with Sir John Sulston before gaining industrial experience with Illumina, located near Cambridge, UK.
Sir Paul Nurse, currently President of the Royal Society, London and a Nobel Laureate (2001).
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- Fred Sanger - Double Nobel LaureateA Biography, pp. 153 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014